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Course Overview
Section 1: Introduction to Commercial Driver's Licenses
Section 2: Safety Fundamentals and Overview of FMCSRs
Section 3: Hazardous Materials Regulations
Section 4: Self Certification
Section 5: Check your knowledge
Section 6: Driver Disqualifications
Section 7: Medical Requirements
Section 8: Weigh Stations
Section 9: Whistleblowers and Coercion
Section 10: Commercial Driver License Tests
Section 11: How to Get a CDL
Section 1: Seeing Around You
Section 2: Safe Communication With Other Vehicles
Section 3: Controlling Your Speed
Section 4: Managing Space
Section 5: Seeing Hazards
Section 6: Distracted Driving
Section 7: Test Your Knowledge
Section 8: Aggressive Drivers and Road Rage
Section 9: Skid Control and Recovery
Section 10: Antilock Brake Systems
Section 11: End of Lesson Quiz
Section 1: Transporting Cargo Safely
Section 2: Blocking, Bracing & Tie-Downs
Section 3: Covering Cargo
Section 4: Test Your Knowledge
Section 5: End of Lesson Quiz
Section 1: Air Brakes
Section 2: Parts of an Air Brake System
Section 3: Test Your Knowledge
Section 4: Dual Air Brakes
Section 5: Test Your Knowledge
Section 6: Using Air Brakes
Section 7: End of Lesson Quiz
Section 1: Driving Combinations
Section 2: Combination Vehicle Air Brakes
Section 3: Antilock Brake Systems
Section 4: Coupling & Uncoupling
Section 5: Tractor Semitrailers
Section 6: Pintle Hook
Section 7: Gooseneck Hitch
Section 8: Inspecting Combinations
Section 9: End of Lesson Quiz
Section 1: Introduction Video
Section 2: All Vehicles
Section 3: Steering and Suspension
Section 4: Side of Vehicle
Section 5: Rear of Vehicle
Section 6: Tractor/Coupling
Section 7: Air/Electric Lines - Truck
Section 8: Air/Electric Lines - Trailer
Section 9: Trailer
Section 10: In Cab Check/Engine Start
Section 11: Light Checks
Section 12: Brake Checks
Section 13: Coach/Transit Bus Inspection Items
Section 14: Post Trip Inspection
Section 15: Roadside Inspections
The basic control skills test your ability to perform basic skill maneuvers that are essential for the safe operation of commercial vehicles. Although you may not perform all of these particular maneuvers on the job, the ability to control a vehicle and judge the vehicle’s position in relation to other objects is very important. The following exercises are designed to test your performance of these basic control skills.
Test Exercises: Basic control skills tests are made up of three (3) of the following six (6) exercises. These tests will normally be conducted in a parking lot setting, on courses set up by the examiner. The examiner may also ask you to perform one or more of the exercises somewhere on the street during the road test.
The tests consist of:
- Straight line backing
- Offset back/right
- Offset back/left
- Parallel Park (driver side)
- Parallel Park (conventional)
- Alley dock
These exercises as well as the required course dimensions are shown at the end of this chapter.
The examiner will choose the exercises he/she wishes you to perform. The examiner will include one exercise from each of the following three (3) categories:
Category 1 (Always Used):
- Straight Line Back
Category 2 (Examiner will pick one):
- Offset Back – Left
- Offset Back – Right
Category 3 (Examiner will pick one):
- Sight Side Parallel Park
- Conventional Parallel Park
- Alley Dock
For example, you may be asked to perform a Straight Line Backing, Offset Back – Left, and the Alley Dock exercises for your test. It is important that you practice and know how to perform all six (6) exercises because you will not know which ones the examiner will ask you to do for your test.
